Posted on 09/09/2004 11:55:04 AM PDT by GrandmaPatriot
Edited on 09/09/2004 11:59:36 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
If Rather didn't have the originals, or exact reproductions of them, comparisons to the originals are irrelevant.
Yes,
When you watch TV, and there is a graphic of a pile of documents, and they highlight a line and bring it forward so you can read it, do you think that they use actual documents for that? Sometimes yes, sometimes once you digitized the original, manipulated it, and animate it, it is not readable, so re-create digitally so it is. They do what is expedient and gives the "look" they are going for.
Yes it is a different discussion, but the prevailing standard is that if it is representitive or the actual document and verbatim it is OK.
All I am trying to say we need to make sure we are examining the actual original documents before we go farther with 70's typwriters, and MS Word overlays and such.
-- l8s
-- jrawk
Although I will refrain from celebrating just yet, I have to admit that this is looking rather nice.
Before I retired a little over a year ago, I was a very busy crime fighter for 26 years and I can tell you this.....you folks impress the heck out of me.
Now, if we only had the hard copy of the documents, so that we could send it to the lab for a few tricks, like paper composition and ink analysis!!
Again.....good job....this is fun to watch!!!!!
If they can't get their hands on the originals, they are up the creek.
The White House released the same documents yesterday without challenging their provenance.
Can we find an IBM typewriter of that time frame and retype the document to check what it looks like?
Thanks; of course, I've been there today, but didn't recognize the initials!
Good points.
NJ Neocon: 2004-08-28
On another thread, the white relased 'logs' while these docs were found 'at the same time'
I don't know which is funnier: Rather getting his face blown off by propaganda he propagates as news, or watching another great hope by the Democrat party getting so easily trashed.
I'm not sure the White House "released" these documents, period; most articles are quoting CBS.
The documents that the White House has were faxed to them by CBS.
And why would the White House make a big deal out of them being fakes, when we can take the ball and run with it?
UPDATE: I now have copies of the memos the White House released, and they are just versions that CBS faxed to the White House the day before the 60 Minutes segment aired. There's no indication that the White House had its own copies of these memos and had been sitting on them.
Apologies.
The funniest thing about all this is that it is insane. It doesn't make sense at all. If Bush's unit was the champagne unit and it was SOP to get these well connected guys a way out, why is Killian so angst ridden? The war was winding down, the draft was almost or already over, and there was an abundance of pilots. If Killian just wanted to go up the food chain, why would he care at all about George W. Bush?
The Mother of all CYAs is looking the other way. I imagine that someone like Killian (who apparently was (acc to the Left) up to his ears in "fortunate sons" ) wouldn't be particularly concerned about George W. Bush's drill attendance.
If supply records still exist from that unit you can find out the exact model of typewriter used at the unit.
The joy of seeing the spotlight of truth shined into a dark den of evil!
Its as if the witch is about to die...
Dan Rather deserves to be shamed into repentance.
Let us pray.
This is so much FUN! Watching the Demoorats crash and burn every other day.
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